Architects:MCEA | Arquitectura

Area:29353ft²

Year:2021

Photographs:Gonzalo Ballester Rosique

Manufacturers:Contratas Vilor,DT POOL COOPING,Equidesa,Prefabricados de Hormigones Montalbán y Rodríguez,SALVI

Installations:Federico García Salmerón, Federico García Murcia, Jesús Tomás Murcia Romero

Bowl Design:Israel Gambín | SKATEGO PARKS

Measurements:María José González Vicente

Clients:Consell Insular de Formentera

City:San Francisco Javier

Country:Spain

Text description provided by the architects. The intervention carried out is located on a plot included within the delimitation of the site of cultural interest of the historical complex of Sant Francesc Xavier and in the surroundings of the Sa Tanca Vella chapel, the oldest on the island and declared an asset of cultural interest in the monument category in 1993. Although the intervention carried out is limited to the implementation of different sports uses, the initially developed arrangement covered a larger area, with the introduction of cultural uses such as the open-air auditorium, the arrangement of the surroundings near the Sa Tanca Vella chapel, and the reorganization of the existing urban gardens on the plot.

The location of the plot within an area of the site of cultural interest meant that from the beginning of the project it was sought to minimize the visual impact that hard paving surfaces could introduce into the complex. For this reason, the maximum limit of the paved surfaces and their greater fractionation was adopted as a design criterion to try to adapt them to the slope of the plot without generating important unevenness. This fragmentation of the paved spaces allowed at the same time the conservation and enhancement of the traditional hydraulic infrastructures present in the plot, even recovering their use for the evacuation of collected rainwater without the need for the execution of new systems.

The interstitial spaces located between the different implanted uses give continuity to the chosen geometry through the arrangement of bands of an autochthonous species such as lavender that minimize irrigation needs and whose size partially hides the view of the concrete paved areas from the public road.

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Address:07860 San Francisco Javier, Balearic Islands, Spain